AN ILLUMINATED QURAN COPIED BY ABU BAKR WHEED AND AFTER HIS DEAD CONTINUED BY MUHAMMAD ASAAD NAQSHBANDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 1222 AH/1807 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 419 leaves, 13 lines to the page written in neat naskh script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and black ink, gold roundels between verses, inner margins ruled in two shades of gold and red, catchwords, surah headings written in thuluth in black within illuminated rectangular panels, one illuminated double-page frontispiece in colors and gold, occasional illuminated devices in wide outer margins, brown morocco with stamped gilt central medallion.
With flap similar decoration, gilt edges.
17.5 by 11.5 cm.